Series: The World At The End Of Time; Or, A Nostomodern Odyssey (Act One, Scene One)
"Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost."
The World At The End Of Time (TWATEOT) is a visual narrative series by The Nostomodern Review on Modernity and its mythic worlds. Please subscribe to our newsletter and follow @thenostomodernreview on Instagram to receive the latest updates on this series. All support is appreciated.
Act One, Scene One of TWATEOT was originally published on Instagram on 7th November, 2021.
Foreword
The influence for this series is twofold.
First, think of Simon Reynolds’ 1999 description of the CCRU, “It's the academic equivalent of Kurtz: the general in Apocalypse Now who used unorthodox methods to achieve superior results compared with the tradition-bound US military. Blurring the borders between traditional scholarship, cyberpunk sci-fi and music journalism, the CCRU are striving to achieve a kind of nomadic thought that to use the Deleuze & Guattari term—“deterritorializes” itself every which way: theory melded with fiction, philosophy cross-contaminated by natural sciences (neurology, bacteriology, thermodynamics, metallurgy, chaos and complexity theory, connectionism), academic writing that aspires to the future-shock intensity of jungle and other forms of post-rave music.”
Second, think of Tom Sawyer appearing in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, or the various crossovers in films and tv from the past two decades, or even American McGee’s Alice: Otherlands series of animated stories. These are two influences that shaped the approach—a cultural smashing of two icons and a witness to the results, if only to witness the results.
Mr Welles and Mr Blake are on a mythic journey to escape Modernity, travelling through several mythic worlds and stories, trying to figure out the circumstances of their resurrection. I hope you enjoy this series, which I have enjoyed working on very much.
Copyright © Thomas J. Pellarin, 2021. All rights reserved.